… in today’s digital world can feel like a complicated job. You’ve probably heard about needing good quality business security software and making regular copies of your important information. These are definitely key. But one of the most powerful, yet often overlooked, ways to protect your business is surprisingly simple: […]
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Many Malaysian businesses see a lock on their office door, or their filing cabinet as the extent of their responsibility to protect their client’s data. Unfortunately things are more complicated now, there’s a lot more to consider. PDPA The Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (PDPA) states Cybersecurity The PDPA […]
Routers from ASUS, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL, ZTE., Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear, and TP-Link are vulnerable to the the VPNFilter Malware, thought to have originated in Russia. At least a million routers infected According to security researchers, significantly more routers have been infected by VPNFilter than first thought. Malaysians are very vulnerable […]
Many will have seen the recent global attack by the WannaCry Ransomware and the fact that it has now been stopped, semi-accidentally, by a UK security researcher alwareTech. This ransomware spread for only a few days, but infected over 900,000 computers in 150 different countries, by using an exploit to […]
30 variants of ASUS’ RT wireless routers are affected by poor cross-site request protection. RT-AC and RT-N variants using firmware older than version 3.0.0.4.380.7378 are affected. The lack of CSRF protection means that if the user has left the default credentials – admin:admin – in place, or if an […]
<Update> Most browsers seem to have the problem fixed, if you still see the issue, check for updates to your browser</Update> If you click on this link and you are using Chrome or Firefox you will probably see that it looks like a perfectly secure connection to apple.com, only it […]
A study by Dimensional Research shows that 64% of IT pros are mostly unprepared for mobile security breaches. 20% of businesses have experienced a mobile attack, and 24% don’t know or can’t tell if they have had one. More than 20% believe that a mobile breach could cost their company more than $500,000, […]
